Ancient Greek and Christianity both have a different view of death. In the two texts, therefore, the idea of death and the afterlife was shown in opposite ways. Death permeates Hamlet from the beginning of the play through the ghost of King Hamlet. Suicide was a desirable way to replace suffering in life but is prohibited by the Christian religion. Hamlet also explains how the body eventually returns to dust and what happens in the afterlife. However, Plato's apologetic death was an unknown idea, so Socrates does not fear it. Furthermore, death is an honorable thing for men. For Socrates, death is the nonexistence or transmigration of the soul. Death pervades Hamlet right from the introductory part of the play. The ghost of the village the king announces the notion of death and costs. Hamlet has a youthful attraction to death; his friends told him that looking for the ghost is a wrong thing because the ghost is an ominous omen for Denmark and the most important issue of the entire state's health. It is a clear indication of the rot in the state produced by Claudius' killing of his brother. However, Hamlet's fascination with death was too much, meaning he was ready to lose everything to follow the ghost. Hamlet's pain was greater than that of Claudius and his mother and this made him even more obsessed with death. nature's days are burned and purified” (Hamlet, act 1 scene 5. P28). These lines show that the ghost's recent place is purgatory. The ghost makes it clear to Hamlet that his soul has remained wandering the earth because his murder went unpunished. The image of...... in the center of the paper...... who share the knowledge of suffering in their lives. However, the assumption of the transmigration of the soul to a different place identified as metempsychosis, may be wrong. Socrates believed that there was only one place where the dead go, but we think that logically there could be several places where souls go after death. Since Christian belief there is heaven and hell, souls could be transmigrated to either of them depending on how good or bad the person behaves on earth. In conclusion, the idea of death in Hamlet was different from the meaning of death in Plato's Apology. What happens after death is clear to Hamlet, where the soul goes to heaven or hell and the body decays and returns to dust. On the other hand, death for Socrates is the nonexistence or transmigration of the soul to another place. Death is unknowability, so Socrates does not fear it.
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